Oxen
Oxen noun - Domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age.
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Sheep
Sheep noun - An innocent or gentle person.
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Their soothsayers, haruspexes, would foretell from the livers and guts of sheep and oxen, cloud formations, lightning strikes and unusual weather patterns and the flight paths of birds, among other things.
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Oxen, tigers, horses, sheep, roosters, dogs, and pigs have been extinct for so long that the protagonist cannot identify them.
Source: Video Game / Miserere - Paul actually cites the quote "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die" from Isaiah 22:13, which goes like this: "Look, you feast and celebrate, you slaughter oxen and butcher sheep, / you eat meat and drink wine, saying: 'Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die'" (New American Bible).
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